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Unprepared, unaware, naive and stupid

August 22, 2009 posted by indiatime |

Heavy downpours brought everything to a standstill as darkness engulfed India’s capital city at 4 pm. Heavens opened up without a warning and uncommon chaos erupted on usually severely chaotic city streets. Even the airport lost its roof from some of its newer construction.

Nobody saw it coming. Not anyone in meteorology departments. Not a soul in any of India’s observatories. Nobody in the government. None of India’s many satellites. Nobody working on Bhuvan earth. Nobody. We have once again demonstrated that we have no clue, no expertise and no idea how to read and interpret weather maps, how to study and extrapolate weather patterns and how to warn our public about a doom about to befall upon us.

Whether it is a tsunami, a terror attack, a destructive and disruptive downpour or an endemic health emergency of the severest kind and highest priority, India has yet not ben able to successfully implement a wider alert system that can inform, educate, alert and save lives.

Let’s stop talking about sending a man on the moon. Let’s stop bullshitting about one-upping google. Let’s not speak about drones and nuclear submarines. Let’s quit the debate on our standing in the 21st century. All that is nonsense and idiotic chatter when you see that we can’t do shit right by ourselves. Once we get past initial stage of denial, we may be able to finally do something right.

And by we, I mean you, the bloody idiots in India’s legislative assemblies and the parliament. It is you all who have led this once great nation down a ridiculous path, cheating and deceiving the masses with you fake promises, keeping fake issues burning by dividing the public on every basis imaginable.

You can bet we’re in deep mess, when the biggest issues facing us are an over-the-hill actor’s whining about waiting at the airport or an over-the-hill sportsman’s whining about a house in restricted defense space or an over-the-hill politician’s whinings about matters past. Thank God yesterday’s downpour was not a deluge and thank God Kasab didn’t land in Mumbai with a hundred other colleague sand and thank God the Chinese are not that smart either.


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  1. meera on August 22, 2009 9:06 am

    I agree. For days now, everyone including media have been saying that swine flu is not something to be worried about. Now comes word from the WHO that there’s going to be an explosion in swine flu cases. If our health authorities do not wake up in time, India will certainly do the top honours for swine flu statistics.

  2. Ramesh on August 22, 2009 3:18 pm

    I can’t more than agree with you. If such trivial and nonsense issues like detaining a ’self-proclaimed world icon’ dominate our media so much, there’s no guarantee this country will justify its place among the top 21st century nations. And the Indian aviation authorities should get 2 good slaps on the face or 2 good kicks in the rear for raising that crap of an issue with the United States.

  3. Vinoy on August 22, 2009 5:58 pm

    Told you this is a country of idiots.The metereo-idiots had predicted a good monsoon by 10th June!And the television channels are vying with one another for having an interview with that senile idiot with a big skull but small brain who claims to have done a research for full five years and come out with his garbage.HUM NAHIN SUDHRENGE,that’s what they seem to be proclaiming.I wish there is a deluge throughout the country and we all are swept by it!

  4. Light on August 22, 2009 11:11 pm

    And thank God for we had Sardar Patel not bestseller jaswant singh at the time of partition. Asrani was right HUM NAHI SUDHERENGE.

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